US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Aug. 12 for "System and method for autonomously enabling an auditory prosthesis" (Belgian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,740, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"System and method for autonomously enabling an auditory prosthesis" was invented by Luk Macken (Mechelen, Belgium) and Jan Raymond Janssen (St Ives, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided which includes determining a status of a sound processor of an auditory prosthesis, and selectively initiating autonomous programming of the sound processor based, at least in part, on the determined status of the sound processor."

The patent was filed on Aug. 23, 2019, under Application No. 17/258,142.

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